Police investigate Surrey's fifth homicide of 2013 (with video)

RCMP are investigating a new murder in Surrey after a body was found on Colebrook Road Monday morning.

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METRO VANCOUVER -- The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating Surrey’s fifth homicide of 2013 after a man’s body was found on the side of a road in South Surrey on Monday morning.

Cpl. Adam MacIntosh said police were called at 9:20 a.m. to a grassy area in the 12300-block of Colebrook Road, a rural area north of Highway 99 on the Surrey-Delta border, where the body was discovered.

The identity of the man is still unknown and the cause of death has not yet been released.

“We are in the early stages of this investigation and we are working to find out if this latest homicide is related to gang activity,” said MacIntosh in a statement.

It has been a violent month in Surrey, after four men were murdered in a spate of shootings that took place in a 48-hour period.

Manjot Dhillon was shot on Jan. 13, while Edward McGiveron and Geordie Carlow were killed the same day. On the morning of Jan. 15, Manjinder Hairan was killed. The killings of Dhillon and Hairan have been linked to gang activity.

Monday’s discovery also wasn’t the first time that a body has been found on Colebrook Road.

In January 2007, the body of 15-year-old Amrita (Jyoti) Kaur Sidhu was found just east of 152nd St., two days after the teenager walked away from hospital.

In 2001, the body of Angie Williams, a Vancouver sex trade worker, was found dumped on the same country road. The woman died of a drug overdose.

Police are asking anyone with information about the death, or who saw something suspicious in the area on Sunday night or Monday morning, to contact the tip line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at ihittipline@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.